Today many people with serious diseases use online support groups to seek social support. For these groups to be sustained and effective, member retention and commitment is import...
Clustering groups records that are similar to each other into the same group, and those that are less similar into different groups. Clustering data of mixed types is difficult du...
Abstract. We propose a mediator model for providing integrated and unified access to multiple taxonomy-based sources. Each source comprises a taxonomy and a database that indexes o...
Yannis Tzitzikas, Nicolas Spyratos, Panos Constant...
In this paper we propose a novel method for automatic evaluation of conversational agents. The method is based on analyzing the user’s affect conveyed in utterances. From analyz...
Michal Ptaszynski, Pawel Dybala, Shinsuke Higuchi,...
1 In this paper, we study the problem of scheduling a set of control tasks. We distinguish three different situations of states of controlled plants: not activated, steady state si...